Date
|
Speaker
|
Title
|
Affiliation |
Jan 19
|
Roman Petryk
|
Charged Massive Scalar Fields in Black Hole Spacetimes
|
UBC
|
Jan 26
|
Ulrich Sperhake
|
Single and binary black hole evolutions using dynamic excision and fixed mesh refinement
|
Penn State University
|
Feb 2
|
Yuk Tung Liu
|
Dynamics of Spinning Compact Binaries: Gravity Waves, Chaos and Spin-Orbit Resonance
|
UIUC
|
Feb 9
|
Matt Duez
|
The Gravitational Self-Force
|
UIUC
|
Feb 16
|
Joshua Faber
|
Mapping the Microkelvins: The coming era of CMB polarization measurements
|
UIUC
|
Feb 23
|
Keisuke Taniguchi
|
Formation of The First Stars
|
UIUC
|
Mar 2
|
Xiaoyue Guan
|
Resonant Excitation of White Dwarf Oscillations in Compact Object Binaries
|
UIUC
|
Mar 9
|
Masaru Shibata
|
Merger of binary neutron stars with realistic equations of state in full general relativity
|
University of Tokyo
|
Mar 16
|
Po Kin Leung
|
Radiation Pressure Supported Starburst Disks & AGN Fueling
|
UIUC
|
Mar 23
|
Spring Break |
No talk
|
No talk
|
Mar 30
|
C. V. Vishveshwara |
Black Holes in the Einstein Universe
|
Indian Institute of Astrophysics
|
Apr 6
|
Ruben Krasnopolsky |
Quenching the Fragmentation of Protostellar Disks
|
UIUC
|
Apr 13
|
Wenfei Yu
|
A Mini Gamma-ray Burst from Our Own Galaxy
|
UIUC
|
Apr 20
|
Brian Fields |
When Stars Attack! Live Radioisotopes as Signatures of Nearby Supernovae
|
UIUC
|
Apr 27
|
Susan Lamb |
Numerical Simulations of Galaxy Mergers: Implications for the Evolution of Dark Matter Halos and Tidal Features
|
UIUC
|